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..but not pregnant. I started jogging 5 weeks ago, but I do less than 10 miles a week. From what I could find on-line, there aren't usually problems until a woman gets to 30-40 miles per week. Any ladies have any experience with this? Should I keep running, slow down, quit until my body remembers how to act?

Keep going. Your body will adjust and your periods will return to normal. Possibly they will be lighter and less cramping too.

Title: Re: 8 days late
Post by: cheryl1 on July 01, 2012, 07:52:12 PM

Thanks. Even through high school sports I've never had this problem before. And it must be an unwritten law of the universe that a woman's period will begin 5 minutes after she opens a pregnancy test. ::)

If ya do a home pregnancy test, do another 2 days later- and the Dollar Store brand are just as accurate!The HCG level to trigger a positive is very low, either 25 or 50... (20 is barely pregnant but still NEG)That level doubles every 2 days with pregnancy- so the NOT today may be over the limit and be YES tomorrow!

It's also possible that you were pregnant but had a "chemical" pregnancy; that's where the fetus dies shortly after or shortly before implantation, but your period will still be delayed by 4-10 days because the hcg started rising. My doc said that happens to almost every woman occasionally and most don't know it because they either don't take a test or don't register a positive on it.

ETA: I'm not trying to upset anyone or anything. I just know way too much about this stuff, unfortunately.

I was 11 days late during my summer travels in Europe about 20 years ago.

I knew I wasn't pregnant because I hadn't been with anyone. However, being as late as I was just wasn't something I'd ever experienced before, so it definitely worried me. I'd been late before by 2 or 3 days at best, but never 11. But it turned out the best guess of why I was so late was that I was being hyper-stressed by the whole affair -- the plane trip, the jet lag, the culture shock of the differences I kept experiencing such as food and various ways of doing things, etc. Finally one night I totally broke down in tears and sobbed for half an hour in the company of two other women and told them all my woes:

-- the shower had fungus in it-- nobody used (or gave us) napkins so I was wiping my hands on my socks at each meal -- nobody ever rinsed off the dishes when they washed them, so the dishes were always left to dry in the dish strainer with the soap scum still on them -- the sun never went down (I was in Northern Europe right at the June solstice and the sun barely dipped down behind the horizon) -- I repeatedly almost got hit by cars and buses because they drove on the other side of the road so I kept stupidly looking the wrong way as I attempted to step out onto the busy streets to cross

After that very cathartic sob session, I went to bed and then I started my period the next day.

I was just way too stressed and in an alien environment and my body reacted.

Title: Re: 8 days late
Post by: cheryl1 on July 02, 2012, 08:01:04 AM

Just thinking that I was possibly pregnant was enough to convince me it's time to talk to my doc about a tubal. Dh is also 90% on board with that plan. Once we stopped and thought about it, neither one of us really wants to start over with another baby. I don't want to have to potty train again until it's time to teach a grandkid. 4 kids would mean another vehicle, losing our babysitting on the weekends, boom boom goes back to 5 minutes here and there, etc. Calling my doc right now!

..but not pregnant. I started jogging 5 weeks ago, but I do less than 10 miles a week. From what I could find on-line, there aren't usually problems until a woman gets to 30-40 miles per week. Any ladies have any experience with this? Should I keep running, slow down, quit until my body remembers how to act?

I was training for a marathon before I got hurt and running 30-40 miles a week. My periods were normal. My nutritionist/coaches in college said that irregular or late periods have more to do with eating too little and high stress levels than with too much exercise. If anything I would keep running to reduce stress and increase appetite! Hope everything works out and that you're not pregnant if you don't want to be!